My new Baby,purchased today.Trek Madone 5.9Durace groupset,except cassette and shifters.Duotrap integrated in frame for Garmininternally routed cablingcarbon cages etc etc.I am one very happy camper, especially for the price.Saved up for it,it's a 2011 model.Funnily enough it's nearly the same colour scheme as my Trek 1.9 aluminium roady, which now gets relegated to the second bike lol.anyhow here she is

Thought I might stick up a fresh photo of the Felt. Been riding it pretty hard, and the wheels only needed a slight true at the first service. They'll still get replaced with some DA C24's early next year but they're not bad for stock wheels. Do need a bigger saddle bag though, the small clip-in Fizik bag is a tad tiny if you want to stash some CO2 cannisters, an inflator, tubes, multitool, phone and cards/cash. It's good for short rides though, and was only $15.

I should also point out that matte black paint is only for the obsessive-compulsive. I clean my rides religiously, but this even more so.

sherlock wrote:Thought I might stick up a fresh photo of the Felt. Been riding it pretty hard, and the wheels only needed a slight true at the first service. They'll still get replaced with some DA C24's early next year but they're not bad for stock wheels. Do need a bigger saddle bag though, the small clip-in Fizik bag is a tad tiny if you want to stash some CO2 cannisters, an inflator, tubes, multitool, phone and cards/cash. It's good for short rides though, and was only $15. I should also point out that matte black paint is only for the obsessive-compulsive. I clean my rides religiously, but this even more so.

Nice camera work. Looks a great contrast against the 'weathered'board! As previously mentioned on this thread, there are some great photographers out there. Then again, if the subject looks as cool as that, it's not hard to put in some extra effort.

I built this Colnago C50 frame up from scratch with assistance from my former LBS guy - the learning experience was great - every "gear head" should build up a bike from scratch at least once............ the build was half the fun of buying this new bike.

The C50's diamond shaped HP (High Power in Colnago speak) chainstays are said to be engineered to absorb more road vibration (vertical compliance), particularly ultra high frequency vibrations associated with rough surfaced chip seal type roads whilst offering all of the ridgity of a conventional single tube chain stay.

It's clearly debatable as to wether these unique diamond shaped tubes work any better, however as I was purchasing this frame at the very end of it's long and successful production life and there was no bad press anywhere to be heard / read on the diamond shaped chainstays - I was never deterred from going with them.

What I can report though, from my own finely tuned seat of the pants feel is that the C50 frame despite being 180 grams heavier than the 2010 TCR 1 frame I used to ride is indeed much better at absorbing the road buzz - the ride feels a lot more......... 'plush' for the want of another descriptor.

nice machines - that TT bike looks a bit special. well time for some "real" bike pics

this is my commuter/MTB bike. after 8 years of service, i couldn't remove the BB from the frame so i bought a new one.

with the new cranks installed:had to chop the forks steerer when swapping them onto the new frame, with a shorter head tube. also added some Clarks S2 rear disc brakes:almost all together now. in case you're wondering, no, the lady of the house doesn't approve of my bike parts warehouse:

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